Image: Charles McLellan / ZDNetĪfter cabling up (from camera to power adapter, and from power adapter to PC), it's time to configure the camera, which you do using Logitech's cloud-based Sync platform.
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The Bluetooth share button, which sticks to the wall next to your whiteboard, starts up a whiteboard sharing session in Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms, but does not work with the desktop versions. It also works as a USB-connected camera with 'virtually any' video-conferencing software, Logitech says.
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Logitech Scribe costs $1,199 (or £1,199 in the UK) and integrates as a whiteboard content camera with Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, and Zoom Rooms on Windows and MacOS. It does this by employing integrated artificial intelligence to render the presenter transparent or semi-transparent while enhancing content that's written or drawn on the whiteboard. On the other hand, it can be difficult to shoehorn a traditional whiteboard into a meeting when there is just a regular video-conferencing camera to hand: even if the camera's field of view and/or pan-tilt-zoom capability can handle the scene, the problem of the presenter getting in the way is ever-present and content can be hard to read.Įnter Logitech's Scribe, a dedicated whiteboard camera that, the company says, "gives everyone - in-room or remote - a perfect view of the board". On the one hand, interactive devices are expensive and can be daunting for casual users to operate. Whiteboards are an under-used resource in video meetings, for two reasons.
But what about remote participants, who are certain to be a fixture of the post-pandemic business and education landscape?
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